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Ohio
I found a Northfield 12HD jointer on an online auction a couple of months ago. It was in the maintenance department in a collage in Virginia. I had the Northfield 12MD but when I had a chance to go from 74 inch bed to a 96 inch bed I could not resist. The jointer had spent it's entire life bolted to the floor where I picked it up. It still had the original knives in it, even though they had been sharpened past where they should have been. Being in a maintenance area it had a lot of paint speckles and splatters on it, so I gave it a quick sanding and a spray can paintjob while I waited on the Shelix head to arrive. Added a VFD to run the three phase motor, and a new start stop button and we were in business. The beds were perfectly flat and in alignment, the only thing I did was to put a piece of paper under one bearing holder to align the new head to the bed. And of course I replaced the bearings while I was there. The machine is a 1958, the same year I was born so we have a common bond.
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